Simulator

Birthdays the Beginning

Single Player

Critic · Metacritic

2.6

Users · RAWG

2017

Released

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📅 Release Info

Release DateJanuary 19, 2017

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Publisher

🏷️ Game Details

Genres

SimulatorStrategySimulation

Playable on

PCPlayStationNintendo

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PC (Microsoft Windows)PCPlayStation 4Nintendo Switch

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About this game

"From the legendary creator, Mr. Yasuhiro Wada (TOYBOX Inc.), comes Birthdays the Beginning: a new sandbox game in which players create cube-shaped worlds that give rise to diverse and unique lifeforms. With careful experimentation, players can shape the geography and alter the temperature of each world to create the conditions for life and witness the birth of an entire ecosystem!"

Pros & Cons

Pros

Unusual premise centers on shaping a world and observing life evolve.
Sandbox allows experimentation with terrain, temperature, and environmental conditions.
Environmental changes reveal how organisms appear and survive.
Mostly non-combat gameplay centers on observing ecosystem changes.

Cons

Game provides limited explanation of objectives and ecological cause-and-effect relationships.
Menus, camera, and controls make world management cumbersome.
Environmental changes and creature development progress slowly.
Progression provides limited direction after initial ecosystem novelty fades.

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